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Mason, a Rhodes scholar, received an M.A. from Harvard in 1920 and Ph.D. in 1925. He retired from teaching in 1969 and lived most recently in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...addition to his large personal investment in the department and his students, Peterson has established himself as a serious scholar of American government with his book Legislating Together: The White House and Capitol Hill From Eisenhower to Reagan, published in 1990. The book--which advances a new theory of presidential-congressional interactions--introduces a "tandem institutions" approach to understanding the two branches of Government. Using both statistical analyses and scores of in-depth interviews as evidence for his theory, Peterson forcefully rejects the popular "presidency-centered perspective" that views the president as the only real force in legislation and demonstrates...
First, although Peterson is surely a rising star in his field, he hasn't yet become a star. He's only in his thirties. He has written only one book. And although Peterson has established himself as an important scholar with great potential, he has not firmly established himself as one of the world's leading American political scientists...
...therefore may not satisfy Harvard's famous standard of tenuring only "the best in the world." The problem is that Harvard's conception of "best" means only "biggest name," and "most famous scholar"--not "best teacher" or "most dedicated professor." Good teaching paired with promising scholarship is just not good enough...
WHATEVER the reason for Mark Peterson's tenure denial, the bottom line is this: Harvard is losing a great teacher, scholar, and human being. Mark Peterson is leaving, perhaps not until after next year, a community to which he has made countless contributions over the past seven years. Students at another university--one that appreciates promising scholarship and values good teaching--will benefit from Harvard's mistake...